2) restoration of the apps is in process but will take a few more days. Sorry about this -- this was not my intended upgrade path but due to the kludgy nature of the existing API* on the site and an unfortunate fiasco with the intended test site, I blew up the extant services. We are moving to a stable release that should make it easier to expand and improve the services in the future.

*[unncessary detail that developer types might find interesting: some guy extended and vastly improved the services module a while back when we were first deploying the iPhone app, so we took his code from his github and found that it worked -- pretty much unlike the official services module. That was outside of any upgrade paths and whatnot and now that the services module has been updated to his new standard we were going to have to deal with this eventually. I was just hoping it wouldn't be user-facing. Fail.]

Most of it's not important. Basically, he's updating the software for the site to the latest version. The latest version has better upgrade paths so this hopefully shouldn't happen again in the future.